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This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid background, mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. He leaves behind him seven letters, alleging different motives for his suicide: to some, he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others, he said that he could not recover from his wife’s betrayal with his own brother (but he wasn’t married, and he didn’t have a brother).In the present, the narrator becomes obsessed with the search for an eighth letter he is convinced must have existed. As the reader observes, his search slowly drives him mad — a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz. This is truly a remarkable novel.
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Nine Nights, Bernardo Carvalho
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Nine Nights
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Psychological Topics, Mystery Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, School, Secrets, Mysterious, Mysteries, Native Americans, Letters, Suicide, Riddles, South America, Brazil, Amazon, Amazon River, Exploratory Journeys
- Original title
- Nove noites
- Rating
- 2.85 out of 5
- Description
- This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid background, mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. He leaves behind him seven letters, alleging different motives for his suicide: to some, he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others, he said that he could not recover from his wife’s betrayal with his own brother (but he wasn’t married, and he didn’t have a brother).In the present, the narrator becomes obsessed with the search for an eighth letter he is convinced must have existed. As the reader observes, his search slowly drives him mad — a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz. This is truly a remarkable novel.